[Rest2web-develop] Rest2web Progress

[Michael F. <mi...@pc...>]

Hello Folks,

Finally progress on rest2web (a time for all things).

I've done a new check-in and am *actively* working on fixing things for
the new release.

The latest check-in includes a couple of bugfixes.

The next release will have the gallery and the following features :

    Adding file keyword
    Adding tags keyword
    Bugfix to ``thispage`` (not broken anymore)
    Added section-pages keyword (a way of specifying the order of pages
in sections)
    Added '__prune__'  *file* so you can block processing of directories
    Depends on Pythonutils 0.2.2 or more recent

I'm also refactoring the docs so that it has a proper tutorial and the
main page is a bit less confusing. rest2web has always been simple to
use in it's basic form - but the restindex and templates have so many
*optional* features that it might not seem that way.

I estimate  I should get this done within a week or so, it has finally
risen to the top of the pile :-)

The plugin system will be included - but I'm not sure if I'll fully
document/announce it with the next release. I have an 'encoding' issue
[#]_ that I need to think about before it's solid. The plugin system
will allow all sorts of useful things - like a sitemap generator, tag
cloud system, etc.

I'm also considering turning the templating and markup into plugins -
allowing people to use alternative systems.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python

.. [#] The issue is that *currently (because of the order things are
processed) plugins need to return their output in the same encoding as
the content - which is fine so long as the output of the plugin can
*always* be expressed in the encoding of the content....